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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Brighton Township, PA) The father of a 10-year-old boy whose mother has been missing from Washington, D.C. since September 4th was arrested during a traffic stop in Brighton Township on Saturday. 

He has not been charged in the woman’s disappearance but he is being held in the Beaver County Jail. 

Antoinette Forbes was last seen close to her home in Washington, D.C. on September 4th.  

Forbes’ sister stated that they spoke on FaceTime the next morning. 

However, she did not connect to their usual family phone call on Sunday. 

Sixty-five-year-old Russell Ashford, who is Forbes’ son’s father, was arrested during a traffic stop at around 10:20 a.m. on Saturday in Brighton Township for violating his parole. 

Ashford was on parole after he was convicted of assaulting Forbes in 2021 and served 5 years of probation. 

Court records that are from a lengthy custody battle show that Ashford lives in an apartment at Bridgewater Crossing.